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Jeg ser nu heller ikke Danmark som nogen stor fodboldnation, men det skal man vist ikke sige højt.

Så skal vi ihvertfald definere hvad "stor" indbefatter.

Er i klar over hvorfor Santos - Internacional er blevet stoppet??

WB long time no see - godt se dig poppe op igen...de fleste af os sov eller så Copa-Argentina finalen tænker jeg.

Jeg missede kampen fordi jeg skulle til en begravelse.

Arh er jeg ked af at høre - op med humøret.


Men jeg er også ret ligeglad med "hvem der er de bedste" :-) Holdenes styrke bliver næsten altid bare målt og anderkendt på deres offensive spillere - se bare Uruguay. Her mangler Danmark lidt, hvilket de nok har gjort i en årrække efterhånden.

Enig anerkendelse er en flygtig størrelse - det kræver at man præstere stabilt over tid, hvad enten det er VM slutrunder, trofæer, spille materiale osv - i den henseende har DK overpræsteret deres udgangspunkt taget i betragtning, hvilket ikke kun skyldes at både VM og EM slutrunder har ændret format, et format som har begunstiget DK, det kan der vist ikke være tvivl om.

Se på Honduras. Carlo Costly river hul i den kinesiske andendivision, hvilket er grunden til at alle frygter dem.

Honduras kan slå Spanien ...så er det skrevet.

Klinsmann feels for Panama

United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has admitted he felt bad for Panama after his team denied the Central Americans´ World Cup wish.

Panama looked set to clinch a spot in a two-legged intercontinental play-off against New Zealand on Tuesday when they led the USA 2-1 with seven minutes remaining, while Costa Rica were ahead by the same margin over Mexico.

But stoppage-time goals from Graham Zusi and Aron Johannsson saw the USA claim a 3-2 victory in Panama City, which sent Mexico into the play-off against New Zealand and dumped the hosts from qualification.

While Klinsmann was never going to apologise for his team chasing victory, even though the result did not mean anything to them, he conceded he could see how ´brutal´ the turnaround had been on Panama.

"It shows you how brutal football can be, for one side to know they are almost there and then the other side is back in but, at the end of the day, we were here to give everything we have and we said that we are here to win and get three points," Klinsmann said.

"Obviously nobody expected that we would turn this game around in the last one minute but you have got to play all the way to the end and we did that.

"I mean our players gave everything they had and kept pushing and were rewarded.

"Now obviously you feel for the people and the entire country like this and I admire them but this is football and it is not over until it is over."

Klinsmann also expressed his surprise Panama did not sit back and defend after Luis Tejada had put the hosts in front in the 83rd minute.

The German coach said Panama gave his team too much space in the closing stages.

"From a tactical point of view, after Panama made it 2-1, you also have to imagine what is going on in the mind of the Panamanians and their coaching bench knowing what the result in Costa Rica is," Klinsmann said.

"You may be thinking they will drop now and kick the ball in the stands but that didn´t happen and they kept coming out and opening space and that space we used in the last moments to score two goals and it is obviously a bitter feeling for a country like Panama to lose in the last minute."

Copa Argentina: San Lorenzo 0 Arsenal 3

http://www.youtube.com/w…N5OnIIlK18Q

Arsenal have triumphed 3-0 over San Lorenzo in the final of the Copa Argentina after the latter had to play the second half with 10 players.

San Lorenzo midfielder Ignacio Piatti was sent off just before half-time with his team trailing 1-0 and goals after the break to Mariano Echeverria and Emilio Zelaya ensured Arsenal lifted the Copa Argentina trophy and claimed a berth in the 2014 Copa Libertadores.

Arsenal took the lead in the 37th minute on Wednesday when Nicolas Aguirre sent a looping header from outside the box past San Lorenzo goalkeeper Sebastian Torrico.

After Piatti was shown a straight red card for rough play in the 45th minute, Arsenal took control of the final in Catamarca.

They doubled their lead 10 minutes into the second half when Echeverria´s header hit the back of the net.

With 23 minutes remaining, Zelaya´s solo effort wrapped up Arsenal´s victory and the Sarandi-based club lifted their third domestic trophy in the past two years.

Enig anerkendelse er en flygtig størrelse - det kræver at man præstere stabilt over tid, hvad enten det er VM slutrunder, trofæer, spille materiale osv - i den henseende har DK overpræsteret deres udgangspunkt taget i betragtning, hvilket ikke kun skyldes at både VM og EM slutrunder har ændret format, et format som har begunstiget DK, det kan der vist ikke være tvivl om.

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Sjældent har jeg set en person modsige sig selv så meget som du gør Deportivo FAS. De kloge fodboldeksperter vil selvfølgelig også være enig med mig.

Du skriver at de tidligere formater har begunstiget Danmark. På hvilken måde er det? Er det kvalifikationen, hvor Danmark er sluttet på 1. pladsen i samtlige VM-Kvalifikationer de har været i? Du skriver at et land som Nigeria skulle være større og mere anerkendt end Danmark på grund af deres historiske resultater. Det er tydeligvis helt væk at skrive det. Nigeria kvalificerede sig til sin første VM-Slutrunde i 1994! Og deres bedste placering ved en VM-Slutrunde er ottendedelsfinalen i 1994 og i 1998. I 1998 tæskede Danmark Nigeria med 4-1, og der er selvfølgelig ingen tvivl om hvem der er bedst. Det er tydeligt du er stædig Deportivo FAS. Selvom jeg gentagne gange piller dine "argumenter" fra hinanden. Men du må have en fantastisk dag.

Sjældent har jeg set en person modsige sig selv så meget som du gør Deportivo FAS. De kloge fodboldeksperter vil selvfølgelig også være enig med mig.

Du skriver at de tidligere formater har begunstiget Danmark. På hvilken måde er det? Er det kvalifikationen, hvor Danmark er sluttet på 1. pladsen i samtlige VM-Kvalifikationer de har været i? Du skriver at et land som Nigeria skulle være større og mere anerkendt end Danmark på grund af deres historiske resultater. Det er tydeligvis helt væk at skrive det. Nigeria kvalificerede sig til sin første VM-Slutrunde i 1994! Og deres bedste placering ved en VM-Slutrunde er ottendedelsfinalen i 1994 og i 1998. I 1998 tæskede Danmark Nigeria med 4-1, og der er selvfølgelig ingen tvivl om hvem der er bedst. Det er tydeligt du er stædig Deportivo FAS. Selvom jeg gentagne gange piller dine "argumenter" fra hinanden. Men du må have en fantastisk dag.

rolig nu - ændringer i formatet hvad enten der er tale om EM eller VM har betydet at der flere europæiske lande i de enkelte slutrunde.

Vedrørende Nigeria, så havde de et superhold i midt 90´erne det er der OL guld osv - de var faktisk anset for at være et reelt bud som outsider til titlen i 1998, det mente de "kloge" eksperter ihvertfald. At Danmark slog Nigeria var en overraskelse, det tror jeg også de fleste "kloge" eksperter vil give mig ret i - ligesom de vil være enig i at Nigeria undervurderede danskerne, og dermed led samme skæbne som DK gjorde mod Spanien i 1986 - altså man får en røvfuld fordi man underpræstere.

Men du er jo ligeså stædig - med de rød hvide briller på - det er jo ikke min skyld at ikke-danske fodboldfans vælger at "rate" Nigeria, Cameroun, Uruguay osv kvalitative fravær ved en VM slutrunde som et større afsavn end den manglende danske deltagelse - du "skyder" på den forkerte, I´m just the messenger. Men du må have en fantastisk dag også :-)

Når, så blev min rejse til Ecuardor aflyst, så nu hedder den Peru istedetfor. Jeg skal sku nok komme til det forjættede land, om jeg så skal svømme!

River Plate, Boca Juniors Could Both Be Given Stadium Bans

As I wrote after the superclásico, the overcrowding of the Estadio Monumental for Boca Juniors’ 1-0 win away to their bitter rivals River Plate a week and a half ago is likely to land River with a stadium closure in punishment. Well, not to be outdone, Boca now look set to be handed a closure of their own for superclásico-related shenanigans, in spite of the fact that they were the away side. Yes, really.

The punishment is due to incidents during the second half of Boca’s 1-1 draw at home to Rosario Central on Sunday. With Boca leading 1-0, fireworks started to go off outside the ground, and before long ‘fans’ (I put those quotation marks there quite deliberately) were climbing the fences separating the stands from the pitch wearing ‘Ghost of the B’ costumes, in reference to the fact that River have been in the second division recently, and Boca haven’t. That joke will never get old. To compound matters, the stadium’s big screen then put up a photo of Boca’s players celebrating their win the previous week in the centre of the Monumental pitch, with the legend, ‘Decíme qué se siente’ (‘Tell me how it feels…’), the chorus of the chant Boca’s fans have dedicated to River, asking what it feels like to have seen their side in the second division. It transpires that the club don’t directly control the screen—it’s contracted out to a Korean company—but all the same, what’s done in their name…

The Argentine FA were due to make an announcement on Tuesday afternoon, but being the AFA, they couldn’t possibly do things on time, and it now looks like confirmation will instead come on Wednesday. All the same, sources close to the AFA have indicated to the press that, as expected, both River and Boca will have to play their next home matches behind closed doors. River play Belgrano de Córdoba (the side who relegated them by beating them in a relegation playoff in 2011) on Sunday, whilst Boca’s next home match is against Colón de Santa Fe, on Friday next week.

Boca uden hjemmebanefans må være en mærkelig oplevelse, de sidder alligevel tættere på banen end hos River hvis jeg ikke husker meget forkert.